From idea to release, faster with VSTS

“We moved from month-long deployment cycles to daily deployments […] to 6 data centers worldwide […] We (now) see 4,000 change lists a week, at check-in we run 20K tests and the check-in experience takes about 10 mins.”

VSTS has everything you love about Git with free private repositories, pull requests, and code review. Collaborate with coworkers to make your code rock-solid-then integrate with CI/CD to get your code to production fast.

“VSTS has helped us embed a number of agile practices in our development methodology. And because we can deploy our solution in Azure, we now have an effective and efficient way to set up a continuous integration and delivery pipeline.”

“VSTS provides an end-to-end solution for us, from the inception of an idea in the pub as you write on the back of a beer mat… until we build out our solution and deploy it into a whole heterogeneous area.”

“We moved from month-long deployment cycles to daily deployments […] to 6 data centers worldwide […] We (now) see 4,000 change lists a week, at check-in we run 20K tests and the check-in experience takes about 10 mins.”

“One of our projects… now running 2 test environments and 18 servers in the cloud that they can spin up or shut down whenever they want, and it costs around €500 a month. That’s an 80 percent cost reduction.”

Deploy to any platform

Deploy to Azure

Create a full CI/CD pipeline for your application–no matter which language you’re using—and deploy to several targets, including virtual machines, Azure Service Fabric, and Docker container orchestrators like Kubernetes.

“VSTS allows us […] for all new development and ongoing maintenance work […] to be more nimble and share projects more easily among our staff worldwide; and it integrates well with our Git repositories.”

Using TFS? Migrate to VSTS today

Move your team and data to VSTS so that you can connect from anywhere and enjoy the latest updates every three weeks. No upgrades needed.

“Instead of telling people to wait for 6 months for a new feature, we can give it to them in a few weeks […] Our 2800 worldwide developers can use the same backlog, user stories and tests whether they’re on Windows or Linux […] building for iOS or Android.”

Brian Harry | January 29, 2018
One of the cool things about having VSTS used across all of Microsoft is that when there’s some useful missing feature…

DevOps at Microsoft

Learn more about how we’ve built a DevOps culture at scale, here at Microsoft.

Breaking a monolith apart is rarely easy, and the Team Foundation Server (TFS) monolith was no exception. But in the end, the effort paid off and made Microsoft’s cloud-hosted DevOps tools—Visual Studio Team Services—possible.

Lori Lamkin outlines the seven-year transformation that we’ve taken in Microsoft’s Developer Division. She shares the steps we took, what we’ve learned along the way, and how you can enable a cloud cadence on your team.

Live-site responsibility is key to our DevOps culture, and we’ve invested a lot into that process. Watch Tom Moore’s discussion of service reliability at Microsoft and learn more about the “you build it, you run it” mindset.